Pinks Perennials
By Jeanne Grunert
Pinks perennials provide excellent flowers and foliage for any type of garden. No matter what your gardening zone, you can grow pinks perennials.
Pinks - Dianthus chinensis hybrids
Apr 29th
Posted by Rupert Foxton-Smythe in Alpines ...
Pinks are well-loved garden plants, widely grown and cherished for their dainty flowers, often delicious perfume and their attractive blue-gray foliage that usually forms a low-growing, neat clump.
Cottage Pinks, Border Pinks, Allwood Pinks
Cool-weather annuals, biennials, or perennials, their many fringed flowers look as if they were trimmed with pinking shears, winning them their common name.
Cheddar Pinks
Fragrant dark pink petals are surrounded with pale pink halos cover mounds of fine blue gray foliage in late spring.
Height
8-12 Inches ...
Pinks are members of the Dianthus family, a group of over 300 species. This group of flowers includes Carnations, Baby's Breath, and Sweet William. So, the attractive and sweet scented Pinks belong to a great family of flowers.
Indian Pinks or Pink Root
Spigelia marilandica
An uncommon if beautiful native perennial, producing upward facing coral-red tubular buds that open to show off the star-like creamy yellow throat.
Propagating pinks
Pinks are short-lived perennials or biennials, so new plants need to be raised every few years, either by seed or, in the case of named cultivars, by division or cuttings.
Even though Chinese pinks are usually treated as an annual, they are perennial in most areas of the southeast. I have had Amazon hybrids in my garden for four years, and they have proven to be reliable perennials.
Note that Dianthus allwoodii, Dianthus plumarius and Dianthus hybridus, known also as pinks, grow in the same conditions, may be propagated also by layering, and are hardy zones 3-8
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Tufted Pinks belong to a small genus of annual to herbaceous perennials from Europe, the Mediterranean region and western Asia. They have dense terminal clusters of small white to pink flowers on elegant stems.
Pinks, Dianthus chinensis
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Pinks have a long history as a flower of religious symbolism with a variety of culinary, medicinal, and aromatic uses.
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pinks, purples, reds, yellows,
Tolerances:
deer, drought, heat & humidity, pollution, seashore, slope, ...
Pinks are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Caryophyllales, family Caryophyllaceae.
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Cheddar Pinks
Dianthus gratianopolitanus
1'
1 to 2'
Sun; well-drained soil; heat and humidity tolerant; Piedmont and Midstate.
The blues, pinks and whites of hydrangea blooms are ubiquitous in home gardens. Hydrangeas are easy to maintain and their vividly colored flowers can nearly cover the bush. There are many types of…
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"Here, some pinks & laurel leaves,
& a handful of sage." -Walt Whitman
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Carnations, Pinks, Sweet Williams, Dianthus sp.
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Carolina Jessamine, Gelsemium sempervirens ...
Ranging from pinks to lavender-blues, Rushpink flowers are very noticeable against the often barren-seeming ground that they prefer. The flower is quite large relative to the rest of the plant.
Pinks
Pinks Dianthus spp.
Planetree
London Platanus × acerifolia
Plantain Lily
Hosta Hosta spp.
Plum
Blireana Prunus × blireana (syn. Prunus × blireiana)
Cherry Prunus cerasifera
Cistena (Purpleleaf Sandcherry) Prunus × cistena ...
5 is better for the pinks.
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nikko'
COMMON: Nikko Blue Hydrangea
LEAVES: Opposite, simple, broad-ovate, 4 to 8" long, 2/3 in width, dark green
SIZE: 4 to 5' high, similar in width
HARDINESS: Zone 6 to 9 ...
Common dianthus include Sweet William, pinks, and carnations.
About This Plant
Most dianthus have pink, red, or white flowers with notched petals. Sweet Williams are biennial or short-lived perennials covered with bicolor flowers in late spring.
Rather a surprising spectacle when in bloom in midsummer and covered with flowers that are an inch or more across in colors grading through rose-pinks to lilac, this stately tree grows to about 25 feet.
and cultivars (Pinks)
Dicentra eximia and hybrids (Bleeding Heart)
Dicliptera suberecta (Hummingbird Plant)
Digitalis sp. and hybrids (Foxglove)
Echinacea sp. and hybrids (Coneflower)
Echinocereus sp. (Claret Cup Cactus) ...
The subtle strength of the coleus's burgundy foliage strikes a balance with soft pinks or pale yellows as well as bright fuchsias or bold oranges.
This delightful plant that comes in a range of colours: purples, pinks and whites, but blue is perhaps the favourite shade.
There is nothing yet to take the place of the old-time groups, such as amaranths, zinnias, calendulas, daturas, balsams, annual pinks, candytufts, bachelor's buttons, wallflowers, larkspurs, petunias, gaillardias, snapdragons, coxcombs, lobelias, ...
Extremely new to the house plant world, a very unique plant wherein the leaves are triangular in shape and infused with pinks, bronze and mauve colors. Perennial herb from Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan, very ornamental.
Moss Campion is part of the pinks family. It is well adapted to growing in the lower, and sometimes higher Alpine regions. Moss Campion only grows about 5-15 cm tall, hugging the ground for warmth.
Flower: Monoecious; very showy, 1 to 2 inches across, 5 large petals with a wide range of colors (pinks to red most common), appearing in terminal clusters in summer on new growth; although summer is peak flowering, ...
Pink Family (Caryophyllaceae) - This plant is definitely a member of the "pinks" family, ...
Colors range includes white, pinks, lavender and yellow in both solid colors and mixes of stripes and spots. Many new a bold color pattern are beginning to show up also. Phalaenopsis flowers offer both exotic form and superb longevity.
Cheddar Pinks has glaucous blue-gray to blue-green evergreen foliage in prostrate form, which could be used as an edger, groundcover, or perennial for sunny sites, ...
After years of blue hydrangeas and the pinks, recent cultivars have offered us something new--a red hydrangea. Along with the beautiful blue, American Meadows has one of the newer really red hybrids named “Red Sensation.
Exotic fuchsia is a fascinating flower, with lovely hanging lantern-like flowers in magentas, pinks, purples, and whites. If you're lucky, your fuchsia will also attract hummingbirds. There are several types of fuchsia on the market.
Colors: White, yellows, pinks, reds and orange
Height: 2 - 5' Width: 18" - 2'
Bloom Period: Summer
Exposure: Full Sun / Partial Shade
Notes: There is great variety, even among lilies of the same species.
orientalis and several other closely-related species and subspecies has vastly improved the colour-range of the flowers, which now extends from slate grey, near-black, deep purple and plum, through rich red and pinks to yellow, white and green.
I placed it out on my porch, watered it and it continued to bloom several different colors, pinks oranges, reds, yellows. Then all the flowers stopped. A few weeks later we had a heat wave, and taa daa, a new round of flowers.
A trifecta of not-too-sweet pinks are the very picuture of spring.
'Dreamland' tulips on long slender stems are underplanted with charming 'Antique Shades' pansies; ...
Cyclamen coum Hybrids are a dainty group of flowering tuberous plants, with flowers ranging from white, through various pinks and into deepest carmine red.
Dianthus is a large family of plants containing Sweet Willams, Pinks and Carnations. All are easy to grow. Smaller varieties make great ground covers while taller ones are nice for cutting.
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Dianthus categories ...
Pansies Roses (Wild roses are the best; remove the lower part of the petal to reduce bitterness.) Nasturtium Calendula Borage (a good blue color) Dianthus/Pinks Open pollinated Broccoli Radish (white, pink, lavender) Squash Purple Podded Pea Scarlet ...
Plants affected Various edible and ornamental plants, including asparagus, Callistephus (China aster), Dianthus (carnations, pinks), French/runner beans, hebe, peas, tomatoes
Main symptoms Stunted plants with wilting leaves.
A group of salt-marsh pinks. The lacy white flower is mock bishop's weed.
'J.H. Hamilton' - 9" tall; flowers pink, double; Aug. - Oct; best of the pinks
'Juno' - 8-12" tall; flowers lavender
'Mairs Variety' - 24" tall; flowers white; July - Sept ...
The flowers come in a variety of colours including white, pinks ,oranges and reds and are highly-attractive to bees. The mid green foliage has a delicious lemon scent. Perfect for adding some late summer and autumn colour to a sunny border.
Primroses shout out in bold yellows, reds, pinks and blues. The flower stalks of primroses shoot up from low, ground-hugging rosettes of thick green leaves, staying in bloom for weeks. Primroses will brighten any shady corner.
Most angel-wing begonias have flowers in pinks, reds, and oranges and attractive variegated foliage. These plants are worth growing for their eye-catching leaves and flowers.
Originally the only colors were yellow, orange, and fulvous red, and today we have colors ranging from near-whites, pastels, yellows, oranges, pinks, vivid reds, crimson, purple, nearly true-blue and fabulous blends.
 See also: Green, May, Pink, Varieties, Orange
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